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Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Fire up
your Kindle - the Kindle edition of my book BOOM! - a Baby Boomer
Memoir 1947-2022 now contains 125+ recently updated links to film
trailers, music tracks and historic film clips from the 50s, 60s and 70s.

An entirely new way of reading a book, the Kindle edition of
BOOM! makes it possible to leap from, say, a discussion of Marlon Brando in The Wild One to the
original 1953 trailer for that sensational film.

'What
are you rebelling against?'

‘Wha ya got?’

Or, when considering the roots of Rock 'n' Roll you can be
listening to Roy Brown's 'Good Rockin Tonight'
or watch Little Eva doing 'The Loco-motion'.
The Baby Boomers were the first generation to grow up with TV and, naturally,
BOOM! provides clips from I Love Lucy or American Bandstand to Tony
Soprano and Don Draper.

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Sex, drugs & Rock 'n' Roll

66 years in the making, BOOM! – A Baby Boomer Memoir 1947-2022 weaves together
social history, personal memoir, pop culture, youth culture, politics, design,
TV, fiction, food, sex, drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll and a lot else besides to make
sense of what has happened to our world from WWII to the present day – and
beyond.

From Neptune, New Jersey to
Swinging London, Rhythm & Blues to Punk, the rise of suburbia to the
rebirth of the city, modernism to post-modernism, Playboy to ‘Make Love
Not War’, I Love Lucy to Mad Men, boom to bust, LSD to ecstasy,
Hipsters to, er, Hipsters.

400-pages – including lists
of all the most important music, films, TV and fiction for each decade, a
Timeline to enable you to do the time warp and a comprehensive index.

My new book BOOM! isn't available in bookshops so . . .

Ted Polhemus

Anthropologist, writer, photographer, lecturer and consultant, Ted Polhemus has been using popular culture as a window on the world for 30+ years. His books include: Streetstyle, Fashion & Anti-fashion, Bodystyles and Style Surfing.

Ted Polhemus believes that a true understanding of history and of the world we live in demands that we look deep into the seemingly superficial and we take seriously the seemingly frivolous. Fashion, style, design, pop music, body decoration - these are the things which give the vital clues to where we are at and where we might be going.